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title: That animal is Man, and I warn you solemnly before I die to beware o… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: That animal is Man, and I warn you solemnly before I die to beware of Man, and on no account to try to hunt or to kill him.” Who acts: animal, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 6

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That animal is Man, and I warn you solemnly before I die to beware of Man, and on no account to try to hunt or to kill him.”

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**Who acts:** animal, I · **What happens:** be, warn, die, beware, try, hunt · **To what, where:** Man, you, death

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:3:6
# text = That animal is Man, and I warn you solemnly before I die to beware of Man, and on no account to try to hunt or to kill him.”
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	warn	warn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that animal | Man and no account |  |  |  | no account *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | I | Man and no account *not said here* | you |  |  | solemnly *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **die** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **beware** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Man | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | that animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **hunt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | that animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **kill** | to-infinitive | that animal *not said here* | death |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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